Jim Petosa
Director
BA and MA, Catholic University of America. Artistic director for the Olney Theatre Center (OTC) since 1994. Also serves as artistic director for National Players and as one of three artistic directors for Potomac Theatre Project. Petosa has directed more than 35 plays in the last five years. His OTC directing credits include: The Laramie Project; She Loves Me; 'Art'; Look! We Have Come Through! (Helen Hayes Award nomination); Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Helen Hayes Award); Shadowlands; The Miracle Worker; The Trip to Bountiful; and Sight Unseen. For Potomac Theatre Project: Closetland; Marisol; Dog Plays; Statements After an Arrest; Good; and The Trial of the Catonsville Nine. National Players' productions include: Much Ado About Nothing, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, and Othello. Petosa has served on the faculty of The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., the University of Maryland—College Park, and the Heifetz International Music Institute at St. John's College in Annapolis. He has also been a visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont and an artist-in-residence at George Washington University, Georgetown University, and the Smithsonian Institution. As a guest artist, he has directed at the John F. Kennedy Center, Studio Theatre, Round House Theatre, Washington Jewish Theatre, and Rep Stage. In addition, he directed the Theater J production Collected Stories, part of Olney Theatre Center's Potomac Theatre Festival 2000, for which he was nominated for a 2001 Helen Hayes Award for outstanding direction. He has served as director for the New York Theatre Studio, Theatre Matrix, and as performing arts coordinator for the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan. A member of Actors' Equity Association and the Dramatists Guild, Mr. Petosa serves on the board of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the Charter Theatre, and the advisory board of the Playwrights Forum.